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239 ● WILLY POGÁNY. Map of
North and South America.
Pen and ink drawing on illustration board
for an unidentified children’s book.
397x302 mm; 151/2x12 inches. Signed in
full in white paint in the lower center
above the margin. Nd. [500/750]
This Hungarian-born artist was one of the
most versatile illustrators of his generation. He
not only provided many pictures for books,
magazines and newspapers, but he also
designed animated cartoons, costumes and sets
for the stage and screen, and painted portraits
and murals.
240 ● (POPEYE.) Three cartoon strips.
Each pen and ink on paper, with the usual markings. Popeye/ThimbleTheater byTom Sims
and Bill Zaboly. 16-panel Sunday strip (April 15, 1951), signed by Sims and Zaboly. 1951 *
Two 3-panel daily strips from 1958, each signed by Ralph Stein and Zaboly. The first
356x508 mm; 14x20 inches, the others 152x533 mm; 6x21 inches. Each signed by both the
writer and the artist lower right. Not examined out of frame.
[1,000/1,500]
Bela (“Bill”) Zaboly was the artist.Tom Sims wrote the scripts from 1951 to 1958.
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